Summer Reads Wherever a Gardener Rests

Garden Shoes Left Behind to Curl-up with a Good Summer Read - Photo Credit Chris Eirschele

The Waters of Star Lake by Sara Rath a Summer Read in a Comfortable Chair - Photo Credit University of Wisconsin Press

I just finished a new summer read by Sara Rath called The Waters of Star Lake. If you love spending your summer at a lake surrounded by tall pines and birches resting in a cabin you will relate to her story telling.

Regardless where you step out of your shoes and the requisite garden chair resides, turning a few pages of a good summer book is time well spent.

What exactly are summer reads? Beyond it being easy to hold, unless you have a Kindle of course, a summer read is short, perhaps 200 – 300 pages. You know a book that could be finished during the average vacation.

So, other than the requisite garden book, here are my suggested summer reads:

Print the Legend – I discovered Craig McDonald this year and he has many books, but this is my favorite.

The Kitchen Boy – by Robert Alexander is only 229 pages but still a Russian story.

Books by Agatha Christie – two of my favorites are Five Little Pigs and Sad Cypress.

A few more English stores – Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.

A little longer read but manageable – Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner.